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An authentick copy of the last will and testament of the R---t H-----ble R***** e--l of O***** : with remarks
Title
An authentick copy of the last will and testament of the R---t H-----ble R***** e--l of O***** : with remarks.
Publication
London : Printed for J. English, near St. Paul's, [1744]
Physical Description
8, 20 pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Local Notes
Lewis Walpole Library 49 2492 1: Horace Walpole's copy with notes in his hand, i.e. names supplied throughout.
BEIN College Pamphlets 944 4: From the library of William Whitman Farnam.
Notes
R***** E--l of O***** is Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford.
Dated at end: March 1744.
Signatures: A-C⁴ D².
Provenance
With autograph and ms. notes of William Cole. Also with ms. notes of W.S. Lewis. Unidentified armorial bookplate with motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense".
Strawberry Hill Sale, day vi, lot 66 (with Pinkerton's Scythians and Tracts on Sir Robert's last illness), to Thorpe, £2; offered in Thorpe's Supplement for 1842, lot 13343, for £1.1.0; sold at Hodgson's, February 1924 (Milnes Gaskell Sale), in a miscellaneous lot.
Variant and related titles
Binder's title: Miscellanies. No. 6
Binder's title: Lord Orford. No. 1
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
English short title catalogue, T133323
Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 2492
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Armorial Bookplates (Provenance)
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
Tracts (literary genre)
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